Its never too early to take pictures. The train ride was 19 hours- at this time we just woke up and still have 5 hours to go
These ladies were in the cabins with Mary and Jennifer. I took this picture 4 times and the old lady was like, "you need to take it again my hair doesn't look right!"
One of my new favorite card games is translated to "Beat the Landlord"- we played Landlord with this guy
I was about to go back to my cabin and after being forced by the older lady to eat pumpkin seeds; she said you cant leave; I will get the magician to come. So this guy started doing some really cool tricks. He did some card games that were just mind provoking
Then he did a trick with a piece of string and he told me to cut the string so I cut it in half; he rolled it up, put it in his hand and made it come back to one piece. I don't believe in magic but that thing was cool!
I think he is the husband of the older lady- another random person
After we finally finished our long journey, we took a taxi to the hotel, checked in, drop off our bags, showered and hit the streets again.
This is the Pearl Market where you can buy..pearls obviously but a number of other items
My dad and I in the subway
Mary, Jennifer and I in the subway
These two men were in my cabin on the train and I had a pretty good plan. Don't speak any Chinese and no one will talk to you. He asked me if I spoke chinese and I told him no- how are you going to ask me in chinese if I speak chinese! My dad lay on his bed and they started taking pictures of him like we wouldn't notice. So then he tried to take a picture of me but since my bed was higher it would be more obvious, so he asked me. I told him that he could take a picture of me if he paid 150. He laughed and said no, he will just take the picture and I said, no I don't want to, to which he responds "its OK, I will take the picture"- How is it OK if I am telling you I don't want to. So anyways, he took about 3 pictures and asked me my name. So I told him my chinese name and then he asked me to write it. I said "no, you write it".
I wanted to go to sleep which was why I didn't initiate any conversations, even when my eyes were closed they still spoke to me, even when I told them I didn't speak enough chinese, they still pursued a conversation. So since I couldn't sleep, I started talking to them.
They also had friends in other cabins so the friends would come over and just push my dad's feet out of the way and sit on his bed so that they could face each other! I don't know if they don't say excuse because they think he won't understand or because they just don't care. They would just move his foot and sit down. I thought it was quite hilarious.
